THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY,

‘MAY 14.

1915

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-For Tourists and Anglers

The Dominion Parks branch has recently issued three publi- cations which are for the benefit of the angler and the tourist. They are gotten up very attrac- tively and contain some valuable information. They are:—Classi- fied Guide to Fish and Their Hab- itat, Rocky Mountains Park:’’ “The Nakimu Caves;’’ Glaciers of the Rockies and Selkirks.’’

These are issued by the Dom- inion Parks Branch, Ottawa, and can be had without charge upon |‘ application. The object of the publications is to induce tour- ists and holiday parties to visit British Columbia resorts and get

. Canadians to pay more attention - to the wonders of their own Do- minion.

‘Utalize the Daylight

A prominent bank official of Western Canada, who is taking a keen interest in the utalization of vacant lots for the growing of garden crops, says:~ “It seems tome that the daylight saving scheme would be one of the big- gest factors in helping on the ‘kitchen garden movement. It would give everyone from the Atlantic to the Pacific an hour’s more time to work in the garden in daylight than they would have otherwise and it would bea great thing for the health of the nation to have an extra hour for out- door exercise, and last, but by. no means least, there would be a wonderful saving of light, elec- tricity, gas and oil. The one hour extra daylight means that by: the time darkness came it would be pretty nearly bed time, going by ordinary rules.”. —

We Need Action

For. some time back the gov- ernment press, and ‘some of ‘the ‘opposition press, have written ‘yards of editorial comment laud- ‘ing Sir Robt. ‘L. Borden for: ‘his courageous words denouncing the

heartily agree, ithe premier has only said things,.

‘times. for’ everyone’and. times: for . ‘gpeedy action,’ ‘When’ there : skunks and: traitors. in’ the allared. tape: should he. cuto all ‘other. business laid aside the: camp: is ‘cleaned ‘ap

— The Omineca Herald|

-|must-be dealt with... Sir Robt.

graft in connection with the war | ‘department. ‘With all of it’we!* ~ As yet, however}: =

until he has actually punished | the} ‘eriminals no good will have been - ‘accomplished, These are ‘trying “

inet who. permitted the grafting to creep in and flourish BO: “openly

L. Borden has the greatest op-

strike for purity and uprightness Tf he does what he knows is. his

believe he will do it,. but. action

-lon the double-quick is wanted, | ' [8 in the evening the officers come

SYSTEM THAT 1S BRINGING sING SUCCESS

Where Ditecting Power Power of the British Army is Centered and Performs Work of Great Importance

It is related that at one of the blackest stages of the retreat from Mons Sir John French sur- prised his entourage by announc- ing, after a long morning’s work at his headquarters, that he thought he would go for a stroll. And, picking up a walking-stick, the field marshall calmly walked forth tc take the air as uncon- cernedly as though he were go- ing to stroll down to the war of- fice through the park.

That the British commander- in-chief should have beea able to free himself momentarily from the enormous responsibilities of those days of stress is not only a remarkable instance of his ment- al detachment, but it is also a most striking tribute to his absc- lute confidence in the perfect or- ganization of the British army, without which even the undying heroism of the British troops would have availed nothing against the systematized fright- fulness of the Boche.

Sir John French knows better than anybody else how admirably. organized the British army ma- chine is. He devoted his whole life to it when, emerging ina blaze of glory from the South African war, he was nut content to rest upon -his laurels, but em- barked upon.a long spell of silent,

unostentatious hard work, the fruits of which are seen in the marvellously efficient army under his command today.

A number of gimeracky. little bourgeois houses in the quiet

,’ {little place from which I pen these

lines are the power-houses in which the. driving force of. our army in the field is generated. In depressing little drawing-rooms adorned . with dyed grasses, wax fruits and large. family photo-

portunity ever offered a man to

duty he will be rewarded. We

graphs framed j in, + funereal black, amid. “red. plush | ‘and. ‘gilt. orna- ments, “where ‘the wall-paper is ‘discolored with age and rats rat- tle merrily. behind the wainscots, in tawdry Salles des Fetes, in convents and in ‘school-rooms, the brain of the army works cease- lessly, untiringly, day and night.

Between the hours of 7.30 and

around to the different messes. There is no cafe loafing, no:pre- prandial cocktails, no champagne

German. Dinner is, like every- thing else, a strictly business function. The fare is. rigidly simple, the drinks whisky or the thin red or white wines of the country. Orderlies in khaki act as mess waiters, One is struck by. the number of: young men of. senior rank at these messes. The most complete democracy exists,

is a business army, where every-

where there is no reason that lustre should attach to one officer more than another, _

The table talk is very bright, principally ‘‘shop,”’ of course, but very largely also about life in England. The latest jokes about the war from the English papers are lovingly dwelt on, and the artist (I am afraid I do not re- member his name) who drew for Punch the sketch of the German family indulging in its morning

that his labors were amply repaid if he knew how much his clever satire was appreciated at G.H.Q. (the universal. abbreviation. here for general headquarters),

At. general headquarters are assembled the commander - in - chief and his personal ataff, the general staff, the adjutant-gen- eral staff, and the quartermaster- general staff. Strictly speaking, the functions of the eommander- in-chief are to lay down and elaborate the strategical plans of the army, the tactical execution of which, however, is the affair of the commanders of the armies, They in turn relegate a part of their responsibility to the com- manders of the army ‘corps, who in turn transmit the orders, still with a certain measure of liberty

of action, to the divisional com- manders, from whom, by way of the brigade commanders, the regiments receive their orders

for the operations to be under-

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Nobody puts on ‘‘side,”’ for this.

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taken. 7 ; The general staff, presided over by the chief of the general staff,

ations and intelligence, -known respectively as the “O” and “1” “Operations attends to the trans- mission of orders and the sifting and examination of. intercommun- ication. of ‘reports, ete., of all reports, ete, from the armies, and also between the British and allied armies. . The intelligence is divided into four sub-divisions. “T-a,”’ as the first ‘sub- division is known, collects all: possible. in- formation about the: enemy, his strength, the disposition of his forces, reinforcements,’ casual- ties, ete. This is work of -su- preme- importance, and in the] British ‘army, “by. ‘means of. affi-

only: with: the German: language but’ also with ‘the German army,

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SYNOPSIS OF COAL MINING REG. : _ ULATIONS.”

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Goan mining rights ot the Dominion,’ in ‘Manitoba, Saskatchewan an

Alberta,.. the Yukon Territory, the’

North-west Territories and in u portion.

may. be leased for a term of twenty-one years at an annual rental of $1 an acre.. Not more than:2,560 acres will be leased

to one applicant, ns bye lication for'a lease. mst be made plicant: in.

ted, -

In: surveyed territory the land must be described by sections, or legal sub- divisions of sections, and in unsurveyed territory the tract applied for shall be. staked out by the applicant himself;

¥ach application must be accompanied a fee of $5 which will be refunded i¥ tr nights applied for are not available,

is divided into two sections, oper-.

cers thoroughly’ conversant - not | ——

but not otherwise. A- royalty shall be paid on the merchantable output of the

‘mine at the rate of five cents per ton.”

The ‘person operatin ne the mine shall furnish the Agent with sworn returns accounting for the full quanti of mer- chantable coal.mined and pay the royal- ty thereon. If the coal mining rights are not being: operated, such returns should be furnished at least. once a year

The lease will include the coal mizing rights.only, but.the lessee: may be per- mitted to urchase whatever available surface rights may be considered neces- sary for the working of the mine at the rate of $10,060 an acre,

For full information a application shou should be. made to the Secre ry of the. partment of the Interior, Ottawa, or Det any Agent or Sub-Agent of Dominion

Lands. | eos ~W. W. CORY, : Deputy: ‘Minister of the ‘interior,

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